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(c)2013 Words & Music by Rosanne Cash - John Leventhal Track 3 on R.C.´s album "The River & The Thread" Arr. stagwolf [Played in the key of C, Capo 2nd fret, sounds in the key of D ~~~~~~~~~ What's the temperature, darlin'? A hundred and more The horses pawing out the dust but it´s Wilton by the door But you pour your strongest coffee and I'll take the back of wheel We'll drive straight down the river road spread a blanket on the hill. What's the temperature, darlin'? I don't stare into the past There was nothing we could change or fix it was never gonna last Now don't stare into those photos, don´t memorize my eyes We're just a mile or two from Memphis in the rhythm of our minds. mile or two from Memphis and I must go away I tore up all the highways, now there's nothing left to say A mile or two from Memphis and I finally made it home.. [1.Scat 2.Scat+ There were days you paced the kitchen there were nights that felt like jail When the phone rang in the dead of night, you´d always throw my veil No, you never touched the whiskey and you never took the pills I traveled for a million miles while you were standing still. What's the temperature, darlin'? As the daylight fades away I'll make one last rehearsal with one foot in the grave We kept the house on all the corners, we kept the polished bass guitar We kept the tickets and the wheels of tape to remember who we are.. # +What's the temperature, darlin'? ~~~ Rosanne & John on 1 Mic 1 Take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDmRT89KsZU ~~~ This was the first song written for "The River & the Thread", and it set the theme for the album. In our interview with Rosanne Cash, she said: "After we wrote that one we said, this is what we're going to do; this is going to be a record about the South, and these people, and these characters, these places, the sense of time travel, the peculiarities of the South." Rosanne Cash wrote this song with her husband John Leventhal, who also produced and arranged the album The River & the Thread. The song was named for Etta Grant, who was the wife of Johnny Cash's original bass player Marshall Grant, and a lifelong family friend. Etta died on August 7, 2011. Rosanne told Radio.com: "He was like a surrogate dad to me, after my dad died. So John and I wrote 'Etta's Tune' shortly after he died. And it was all true [the details in the song's lyrics]. They did keep a house on Nokomis Avenue in Memphis full of their memories. And he did play the bass guitar one last time the day he had an aneurysm." The song starts with the line, "What's the temperature darling?" Rosanne explained to Radio.com: "She (Etta) told me, after Marshall had had the aneurysm, 'We'd wake up every morning of our lives and say, 'What's the temperature darling?'" And I thought, what a practical, solid way to start the day. On all levels, metaphorical and practically. And John said, 'oh my god, that's a great first line for a song.'"